Hi Fangrui,
> The opinion in my other message
> (https://sourceware.org/pipermail/binutils/2020-July/112283.html )
> stands. allowexec will not be a suitable option name.
Agreed - thinking on it some more, if we do implement this option
then a name like "allowall" or "allowany" might be better.
Hi Kevin,
> I think the main issue is going to be the breaking of existing
> software builds.
True - but the counter argument is that those builds were relying upon
a mis-feature of the BFD linker, and so maybe the correct thing to do
is to fix the builds.
> Also, you mentioned "which will disa
Hi Guys,
I have just updated PR 26047 with a suggested patch which I think could
resolve
this situation. (Patch attached here as well in order to save time). It adds
a new linker command line option: -z allowexec which will disable the
warnings
about linking in executable files. The
